{"id":245951,"date":"2026-10-26T05:07:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/drug-that-targets-an-inflammatory-enzyme-could-help-prevent-lung-cancer"},"modified":"2026-10-26T05:07:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:07:40","slug":"drug-that-targets-an-inflammatory-enzyme-could-help-prevent-lung-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/drug-that-targets-an-inflammatory-enzyme-could-help-prevent-lung-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Drug that targets an inflammatory enzyme could help prevent lung cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>A new study by MIT researchers, including at a lab affiliated with IMES, shows that inhibiting caspase-1 can reduce the risk of tumor growth.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anne Trafton | MIT News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every year, lung cancer kills more than 100,000 people in the United States. Smoking is the leading risk factor for lung cancer, but other environmental exposures can also contribute to the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study by MIT researchers, including at a lab affiliated with IMES, shows that inhibiting caspase-1 can reduce the risk of tumor growth. Anne Trafton | MIT News Every year, lung cancer kills more than 100,000 people in the United States. Smoking is the leading risk factor for lung cancer, but other environmental exposures [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}